Historical transformations
Subtitle: the anthropology of global systems
By: Kajsa Ekholm Friedman and Jonathan Friedman.
Contributors: Friedman, Jonathan.
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780759111103
Subjects: Social change; Globalization -- Social aspects; Globalization -- Economic aspects; Culture and globalization; Transnationalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social reproduction, social transformation, and global process; title: Marxist theory and systems of total reproduction / Jonathan Friedman; title: Crises in theory and transformations of the world economy / Jonathan Friedman; title: Global process and long-term change; title: The study of risks in social systems: an anthropological perspective / Kajsa Ekholm Friedman; title: Notes toward an epigenetic model of the evolution of "civilization" / Jonathan Friedman and M.J. Rowlands; title: "Capital" imperialism and exploitation in ancient world systems / Kajsa Ekholm Friedman and Jonathan Friedman; title: Structure, dynamics, and the final collapse of Bronze Age civilizations in the second millennium / Kajsa Ekholm Friedman; title: Transnationalization, sociopolitical disorder, and ethnification as expressions of declining global hegemony / Jonathan Friedman; title: Structure and history: transformational models; title: External exchange and the transformation of Central African social systems / Kajsa Ekholm Friedman; title: "Sad stories of the death of kings": the involution of divine kingship / Kajsa Ekholm Friedman; title: Notes on structure and history in Oceania / Jonathan Friedman; title: Morphogenesis and global process in Polynesia / Jonathan Friedman.